Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure of the quality of this, the last separate Harvard Yearbook that its most interesting section is the raw data at the back: the seniors and their three-line condensations of four years. Perhaps next year the editors will complement the production techniques they use so well with a conception of the Yearbook's message. If that message is that Harvard life is a chaos, Yearbook 329 ought to say so and document its claim. At least the attempt would make 329 a volume of more than commendable vitality and notable success...
...Cooper and Mr. Nelson were able to achieve their successes partially because of the technical wonderland developed by producer Lewis. Special effects advance rather than steal the show, and the clever sets of Tom Doherty and Scott McCausland complement instead of compete with the actors...
...also find the church's reasoning fallacious, and Pollster Lou Harris reported in February that by a 3-to-2 margin a sampling of U.S. Catholics wanted to see a change in their church's attitude toward birth control. Rhythm, they argue, is unreliable and moreover, its complement of thermometers, charts and calendar watching makes any theological defense of the method as "natural" seem like a bad semantic joke...
Until March 15, when the exhibition closes, it will provide a needed complement to the Museum of Fine Arts' exhaustive collection of portraits of dead patriots and obscure colonial governors...
...extramarital relations are almost universally condemned. Every known human society forbids incest, but nearly all have a recognized procedure for divorce, which in the U.S. reaches a peak around the third year of marriage. A curious cementing factor in societies allowing free mate selection is that partners tend to complement each other's psychological needs-for example, "a highly hostile individual would seek to mate with a highly abasing person...